Ogden Daily Standard | 1919-07-01 | Page 12 | Curtaining Windows for Summer

Curtaining Windows for Summer. 1 in planning (he curtains for our window iliis summer lei us keep in mind that they should ! bo simple. Winter is (lie limn for elaborate cffocls, if wo arc fond of those, but in tho out of ! door season our houses should show i he same unaffected simplicity that daisies show springing 1 up in country fields, the simplicity of lanos edged with yellow buttercups. Contrast these, if yon I "ill. with the heavy masses of hothouse blooms with which wo deck our homos in tho wintor and ! ! vou will see how much better the unelaborate things suit our summer dwellings. Hew nice it is to hive our windows froo To tho breeze! Scant lengths Of while muslin, ' f cool looking voiles, dotted, sprigged or cross-barred. Summery chintzes, pi aided Swisses, the ! plain organdies. These simplo curtains should nevor be hung below the sills, and they should ! J always have the central division, go that the may be pushed well back In order to get plenty f liglii ami air, Pushing back is just as satisfactory as tying, ami tying is rarely in good taste These curtains ma be made with or without the alame. If without, they are simply caSed -n thin brass rods, with the roller shado, if ofiho usual plain kind, hung between the curtains I and tho window, or if tho shado is ono of those pretty, new, decorated ones, it may bo hung as suggested in the picture Tins is an ideal bedroom treatment Tho easiest valance to make and hang is tho Dutch valance. Tins is formed of a width of the material, cased at ilm tup and hemmed at the bottom, and when finished measuring from I twelve ft fourteen inchos in depth. This piero uf material, or valance, is Strung on Ihe same rod ! as tho sido drapos, assuming the middle position on tho rod. Tho dotted curtain troatmont in j i ho illustration shows a Dutch valance. Another attractive curtain troatmont is (hat which is formed of imon or muslin, with trim I minos and a valaime of cretonne or some other figured goods. A paper pattern should be fust ! I 1 "t out for Ihe valance, adjusting it to the window carefully heforo risking the material. The j ! valance is made on a valance board and tacked into plooo. Tho side drapes are cased on rods and ! j adjusted under the valance boards.